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TPO 31 - Question 2
Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-19 | jeffhjz | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-08 | mgrajapt | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-16 | Toefl2016 | 67.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-07 | essayvaibs | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-27 | naznazu | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Seema Modak
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 484.0 444.711560045 109% => OK
No of words: 140.0 116.580246914 120% => OK
Chars per words: 3.45714285714 3.81502700369 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43979062825 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.74180295987 1.8723322822 93% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.655143326166 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 157.5 141.574747475 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.139775047308 0.0738818816272 189% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 46.6666666667 60.3232687746 77% => OK
STD paragraph length: 30.025914733 17.3634065801 173% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.0 22.9064221017 65% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.69571382966 6.49597621602 149% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 31.1548821549 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.0 4.0588447711 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.60158695181 3.18357895611 113% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.23514285714 1.46810986539 84% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.10996363243 1.01537252472 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.7 5.28593714927 51% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.09 0.187982170178 48% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0682153452922 0.154715141812 44% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.62 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.275857142857 0.306236595465 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.135741275512 0.198589292138 68% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.35 5.14435465769 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.91 2.80480359147 68% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.0 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.0 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.666666666667 0.637764685501 105% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.11111111111 2.58495923209 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77777777778 1.68816559523 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07146556189 2.15290372801 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.335145942857 0.343871460585 97% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.